Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-04
BURNED BREAD.
Nau's Western Bakery and ShOdair's
Confectionery TO Up in Smoke.

Nau's Western Bakery and Shodair's
Confectionery TO Up in Smoke.
A F1erce but Short Fight for Supremacy
Tho Fire Department Again Exhibit
Their Efficiency in Nipping . Threat
ened Conflagration At the Outset
The Losses and Insurance.
At 10 minutes after 9 O'Clock last night,
the cry of '.Fire!" accompanied by the
screams OF q woman was heard under the
windows of The MINER Office. In few
seconds a reporter was on the scene and
found the fire to be in the Western Bakery
owned by Anton Nau. Mrs. Nau had made
| the discovery first and had run screaming
into the street followed by her husband.
The door and windows we're closed and the
smoke could be seen accumulating within.
Next door WAS Shodair's confectionery.
At the first alarm, no time was lost in car
rying out all the portable goods in this
store, as, both being frames of the most
inflammable nature, if one caught fire the
other was doomed too. In a few minutes
the smoke drove the occupants out and
the smoke rolled up in volumes. At 9:15
there was a burst of fame through the
bakery windows and door and q bright
glare illuminated all of Broadway in front
of the buildings. A strong wind was blow
ing from the west aud carried the flames
through Shodair's confectionery in an in
slant: driving forth those who were helping
him renlove his goods. From that instant
the
n CONTENTS WERE DOOMED.
It seemed as though the one story brick
butcher shop and the two-story building
next east, occupied by Mantle & Warren's
a lodging house upstairs, were certain to
be involved by the fire raging west of them.
The heat was intense and the smoke rolled
about the street along by Sands & Boyce's
in sitting volumes. Just then the boys
with the hose anne OF the double. The
Fire Brigade No. l had attached one line
OF hose on the corner of Broadway and
Montana, a distance of two blocks awev
and another line in front of Heyman's con
fectionery store on Main and Broadway.
The Fire Department had as usual. attach
ed to the plug. corner Main and Park, in
front OF Owsley's stable. 1t had seemed an
age after the alarm was given ere they ar
rived, but the first water was thrown on at
500, SO that all got there in remarkably
good time.
had. OF course, gathered at the first alarm,
and the contigulty of the fire to some of
the best and most valuable buildings in
town brought numbers to the scene who
probably would never lave come had they
known the cause of the alarm. No sooner
had the hose got fairly at work than the
flames receded like a swarm of i'll disci.
plined savages before the serried ranks of
a handful of disciplined men. Presently
tho h1o oGnrcl frorf ~ thu ho.ko fo-i
they were little else-loomed through the
smoke, and with a cheer they followed the
flames and routed them out. of their last
refuge. The hook and ladder men facili-
tated the suppression by pulling down the
fronts SO that the fire laddies could get
their hose IN readily. The stores,
OF course, were Quilted. Everything in
the perishable stock they both had con-
tanned was completely destroyed. The
alone. But fierce as had been the flames
the ROOT and walls were not consumed,
which shows the effective ~thoroughness OF
the work done by the firemen.
THE FIRE BRIGADE
handled their apparatus admirably. They
attached two lines and attarked the fire
front and rear. The men never finched for
an instant-and the ga me praise is due the
City Department-but went steadily at
their work until the last spark was out and
only a black, cherries. charred shack was
left to tell the tale. Assistant Fire Marshal
McMurphey was indefatigable in his
Efforts directing the men. The Brigade
were there to the last. and When they could
do no more folded their apparatus and re-
turned to their quarters, in readiness for
another alarm should it come the next
minute after they we're housed. The fol-
lowing members of Butte Fire Brigade No.
l answered to ~roll-call after returning to
quarters ron the fire: Geo. H. Casey,
Chas. Schatzlein, Will Schatzlein, John
Richards, Dave Meiklejohn, Chas Bozeman,
W. II. Young, Peter Martin, Henry Nc
Murphey, Frank Themes, Simon Hauf-
with, Herman Winick, A. D. Meikleiohn,
Chas. Weston. Ed. Demars, jim lobe, Sol
Lukey, Max Meyer and o. K. Lewis.
THE LOSSES
were heavier than would be supposed. The
buildings belonged to Mrs. Mary Barnard,
and were valued in the neighborhood OF
$1,000. They were insured for $500 in
the State Investment Company of San
Francisco by the Mantle & Warren agency.
Mr.. Shodair estimated his loss at about
$4,000 on stock, and carried $1,000 in.
surance In Marsh's insurance agency, in
what companies he did not know. He had
about 5000 worth of stuff saved bv
friends in the shape of tables, show cases,
pictures, etc., that was carried across
Broadway to Lukin & Hoskin's saloon
and placed in a shed. A fine piano in the
rear room OF his confectionery was
amongst the property destroyed.
Anton Nau valued the stock in his
bakery at about 81. 1000, on which he had
insurance of $780,. He saved two
show cases with some cakes in them, but
had $l3 stolen out OF the till in the store,
and a purse containing over 500 stolen
from the tray of a trunk in the room back
OF the shop. 1t must have been taken
before the fire gained much headway,
though by whom he has no idea. He came
here from Leadville three years ago, and
just got a good footing under him
when this loss overlook him. But he ia
not disheartened. He intends resuminp
business right away as soon as he can
other arrangements.
THE origin.
Nau did not knowexactly how it started.
The oven is in a room by itself and it was
all shut up. His wife perceived an odor OF
smoke and went to the door of the baking
and as she opened it a volume of
smoke rushed out and stif1ed her. She ran
out screaming as At first stated and then
he saw what vas the matter and. seeing
the uselessness OF attempting to stem the
lanes himself, followed his wife, and was
only b to save a couple OF show cases
IRE he was driven out by the heat and
Everyone cheered at the way the bows
irove the flames before them almost from I
he start.
The Fire Department COMPLAIN that tbev ]